I work in a fucking adult preschool, I swear...

[RayvenQ]

2. I requested a name change (for the rest of the night). I had some cool pit bosses on, so I just explained how creeped out the sound of my own name was making me, and I got to be Jim for the rest of the evening. It amuses us all, because I'm a woman

It'd be hard for me to resist walking past you without going "He's dead Jim."

[suburbandecay]

Just curious, but how does dealing the dealer's second card after all the players have acted, rather than at the beginning, affect the odds?

I can see how it would affect the odds normally (there are more cards dealt), but unless it's a full table and using few decks, I can't really see how this is a huge house advantage.

[Andara Bledin]

Just curious, but how does dealing the dealer's second card after all the players have acted, rather than at the beginning, affect the odds?

I can see how it would affect the odds normally (there are more cards dealt), but unless it's a full table and using few decks, I can't really see how this is a huge house advantage.

Ditto. I can see how it would mean going through a few more cards in cases where the house would get blackjack (and the associated bets, such as doubling down or splitting), but in cases other than where the house gets that blackjack, I'm not sure how this would change the odds at all.

^-.-^

[veniteangeli]

Had another situation tonight, had 4 players at the table, doing all right, not winning a lot, but not getting crushed either. Asian lady sits down, and starts trying to dictate to the table how people were supposed to be playing their hands. Which straight up pissed off the other players. ESPECIALLY when she kept dispensing her 'advice' after she'd lost all her money, and the other 4 still had chips on the table.

I don't allow bullies on my table lol. Generally with people like that, I tell them flat out that they can do what they like with their own money, but they don't get to tell anyone else what to do UNLESS that person is asking for advice. If the bully doesn't like that, then they can choose another table.

Which reminds me. Do you ever get people who will only play if they're the only player at the table, and will pick up their chips and run if anyone else comes along? I had one guy who flat out told me to hurry up cos he wanted to get through a bunch of hands before anyone else came and "screwed him over".

J\How about, in cases where someone makes an obviously boneheaded move, recommending that they read a book (don't specify title, leave the choice up to them) on basic blackjack strategy? After all, if they follow its advice, and still lose, it's the author who was giving them bad advice.

Well, the biggest boneheaded move of all was sitting down at my table and expecting to win, and I don't warn them against that :P No, I really don't tell anyone anything. Our bosses have asked us not to, unless we're asked for advice and then only after the fact, you know? And even then we're supposed to keep to minimal.

[gerund]

And yes, please, I would love to hear the story of how an idiot could try and cheat at a poker table and do badly enough at it to lose...

The game they were playing was Limit Manilla which looks a lot like Texas holdem but plays somewhat differently. The blinds were $5 $10, so it was a small game money wise, but the number of players at once (13) and the 5 betting rounds means that $500+ pots were not unusual.

The game of Manilla is also played with a reduced deck (7s and up) so good hands abound. In a full ring of 13 players a full house would normally win. If there were only 8 or 9 players the most common winning hand was broadway (A high straight)

Participents:

CB: cheating bastard
CBS: cheating bastards sidekick
H&P: Old Huff and Puff
ACS: Asian calling station

CB and CBS had a thing going where they signalled each other and raised and re-raised while they had a third player in the pot. As it was a limit game, this would raise most drawing hands out of the pot and give them the win. The casino claimed it was too hard to prove and the other players claimed they could win off CB and CBS as CBS was a terrible player by himself.

The other regulars decided they were going to soft play each other by giving back the last bet in a pot. This was someone's attempt to slightly mitigate CB and CBS mad raising and reraising while there was a third party in the pot. CB and CBS agreed to this. I don't know why. The casino stopped this after a while as it was blatant collusion that even they could not ignore.

I never played while CB and CBS were playing, but H&P got into the giving back the last bet and he played. He had trouble affording the large hands that CB and CBS generated.

So he came to the blackjack table almost broke crying about the hand that he lost at the poker table. His hand was broadway and ACS had won the hand with a smaller straight. CB had two pair and CBS had nothing (as usual). H&P had convinced himself that CB had a full house and had folded the last betting round, after putting most of this stake into the pot in the earlier rounds.

I said to him that he should have called the last round (despite it being $100 to call) as if CB had the full house he would have got his $100 back.

He looked at me in some surprise and said

"Shutup you fucking idiot" and huffed and puffed away somewhere else.

[HotelMinion]

OMG at the Hit ME Bitch, that's so unbelievably rude, what a dumbass. I hate wearing my name tag for those very same reasons, and then some. Some people get a personal vendetta aganist you and your name is right there. I'm serious. Once this crazy guy screamed at me for not having what he wanted and he look right at my tag, and demanded to know my last name as well. He wanted me to right it down for him in big, block letters on a card. That was a couple years ago and I still remember it. Now, if that happened, I would call 911, he was sooooo scary looking with wild eyes. (shudder)